Meat Puppets

Fusing classic rock, punk and country folk, hardcore band the Meat Puppets was the longest-lasting of all the bands on the 1980s seminal hardcore label SST. Centered around the duo of Curt and Cris Kirkwood, the Meat Puppets played music that was always smart, tuneful and true to its hard rock roots--even when the band experienced its brief flirtation with the mainstream in the early 1990s, largely a result of its friendship with grunge kingpins, Nirvana.